The Bible is something for yourself. What I mean by that, is that it was not made to take and attack, or judge others with. The Bible is something made for you to deal with your own heart issues. See in Matthew 7:3-5 (NKJV), Jesus puts it right out there on the table saying,
And why do you look at the speck in your brothers eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, Let me remove the speck from your eye; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye. Matthew 7:3-5 (NKJV)
Jesus is telling us right there to deal with our heart issues first, then you can move on to help someone else. When I say this I'm not saying clean yourself up and now your sanctified to judge others. No, I'm saying help yourself. Look at yourself to get yourself right. So that when your trying to help someone else, your mind will be clear, your thoughts will be clean, and no judgement just love.
When I think of this topic I think of the church of Corinth. Back then the corinthians were crazy people. The city really reminds me of how our country is today. See they had the promise of God all over them, but still did really disgusting and un-Godly things. They worshiped false gods, they were sexually impure.
Put it this way if you did something impure back then, something that you knew wasn't right, there was a nickname for you. Like the way I dance some people call it the "Carlton"(fresh prince of bel-air). Where back then they had a synonym for lude actions it was "korinthiazomai" which means to act like a Corinthian. They were so bad people used them in a term to describe bad acts. For me that's a little humiliating. If someone used "i just did a Gibbs" when they did something bad. I think it would be time to do some self reflection, time to get right. I truly believe we as a church as a whole in this country have starting to go that way.
I got a story to tell you guys that kind of puts this into perspective of how the church is going now a days. I was talking to a guy at work the other day, which is a self proclaimed christian, talking about his church. So the conversation started going to people of his church, and how crazy some of them are. Well anyways he with no hesitation told me a story about, in his words "the sluts of the church" and how they get with certain people and how they act. Yes I said they! Then He kept talking about other stuff, but I was still stuck back at the term sluts of the church. Did he really say that, wow!!! I can't believe me ears. This is what I'm talking about, the church now a days, is so corrupted with worldly things it doesn't even realize the acts that Satan is doing right under their noses.
This story depicts exactly how the church of the Corinthians were like back then. But then Paul came in, a disciple of the teaching of Christ to tell or show how corrupt they were. But he also showed how no matter how bad it is, with Jesus everything is forgivable and forgettable. Go to 1 Corinthians 6:11 this is what paul says to the church after seeing all the bad things they were doing, and knew that they were people of God. They knew Jesus, they followed his teachings but were being destroyed by the worldly desires around them.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.(1 Corinthians 6:11 NKJV)
In this verse you will see how Paul talks about how as Christians, once you asked the Lord into your life, or asked the Lord for forgiveness this is what the Holy Spirit does for us (to us).
See when he says you were washed that meant you were spiritually cleansed by God.
You were sanctified means set apart as Gods people.
You were justified means declared righteous by God because of Christ's work on the cross.
What I'm getting here is to always believe no matter what you do always go to Him. If you don't, the act that He did on the cross meant nothing. The story of Paul telling the Corinthians what they were doing, is to keep you in check with your heart issues. Issues that Satan can use to put condemnation in your life.
My point here for you guys to go home with, is check yourself. Find in your life where God is not and put it in check. Don't be that luke warm church, that luke warm "Christian". You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called. (1 Corinthians 7:23, 24 NKJV). Stay close to God so not to fall away from his calling in your life.